Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speak," he said, "on a matter pertaining to the . . . happiness of certain people who serve us faithfully and well-our chauffeurs. [They are] cooped up in a room without air, without airconditioning, without water and without reading matter. Now they are not even allowed to have a five-cent game of gin rummy in their spare time [because of a ban against gambling...
...other things besides purveyor lists, and, to be blunt, can only result in a smaller and smaller dollar harvest from the already less copious graduates. Such exorbitant charges as $30 for running off the stencils of the Album's mailing list, general milking of graduating classes for every cent of the wasteful costs of Class Day exercises, leave rancid tastes that are bound to linger through the years. And it is still expected that, through an almost dead class loyalty, the alumni will still come across with cheery alacrity...
...unwitting host. Ruggles, under the impression that his daughter is an unwed mother, unloads a stream of double entendres that provide the picture's only belly-laughs; and Moore, advising the world's second richest man on his love life, or strolling along majestically and merrily without a cent to his name, is simultaneously humorous, whimsical, and pathetic...
...bill to raise subsistence payments for student-veterans. The chairman of the Rules Committee predicts it will not even reach the floor for a vote at this time. Why should it? Have not the concerned congressmen salved their consciences by demanding that assistance go only to the 99.44 per cent pure...
Vanilla Please. When a drugstore and a grill in Riceville, la. offered ice cream at the cut rate of 20? a pint, competitors lowered their prices to 15?. Soon the price war reached the point where ice cream was being given away. One store finally posted a sign: "One cent paid to those asking for a pint of ice cream and taking it out of the store." The war ended only when ammunition...